Friday, August 14, 2009

Khadr ruling upheld

CBC this morning:
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a judge’s ruling that ordered the federal government to press for the return of Omar Khadr from a U.S. military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Naturally this has brought out the frothing lunatics in the comments to the CBC item. It amazes and disgusts me to no end the fanatical bloodlust that Omar Khadr seems to generate from a portion of the population. It seems he, being one of weakest and most vulnerable people caught up on the wrong side of 9/11, appears to bear a disproportionate amount of public rage. I also wonder, given that Khadr was tortured in custody, including threats of rape, whether these members of the public are advocates of rape as a form of punishment? Would they be willing to carry out that punishment, or would they rather someone else with a uniform and a badge do it - in their name - so they can call them heroes? It's a low and sick cowardice these commenters exhibit.

Given the recent trend in court rulings against the government's position regarding the plight of non-white Canadians imprisoned abroad, perhaps it's time we made the Conservative Party a ward of the court in these matters. It's the only way they can actually be brought to do anything properly.

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